The Works of Alexander Pope ...printed and fold by J. J. Tourneisen, 1803 |
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... thoughts of publishing it , till it pleafed fome Perfons of Rank and Fortune [ the Authors of Verfes to the Imitator ... thought it the fhorteft way to put the laft hand to this Epifle . If it have any thing pleafing , it will be that by ...
... thoughts of publishing it , till it pleafed fome Perfons of Rank and Fortune [ the Authors of Verfes to the Imitator ... thought it the fhorteft way to put the laft hand to this Epifle . If it have any thing pleafing , it will be that by ...
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... thought , And on the other how he never wrote : Who can believe , who view the bad and good , That the dull copyift better underflood That fpirit he pretends to imitate , Than heretofore the Greek he did tranflate ? Thine is juft fuch ...
... thought , And on the other how he never wrote : Who can believe , who view the bad and good , That the dull copyift better underflood That fpirit he pretends to imitate , Than heretofore the Greek he did tranflate ? Thine is juft fuch ...
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... thought and di & ion , that happy Horatian mixture of jeft and carneft that contribute to place Defpreaux at the head of modern claffics . I think it must be confeffed , that he has caught the manner of Horace more fuccesfully than Pope ...
... thought and di & ion , that happy Horatian mixture of jeft and carneft that contribute to place Defpreaux at the head of modern claffics . I think it must be confeffed , that he has caught the manner of Horace more fuccesfully than Pope ...
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... thought CICERONIANS carried the moft celebrated Italians of this time . They abftained from reading the Scriptures for fear of spoiling their ftyle : Cardinal Bembo ufed to call the Epiftles of St. Paul by the contemptuous name of ...
... thought CICERONIANS carried the moft celebrated Italians of this time . They abftained from reading the Scriptures for fear of spoiling their ftyle : Cardinal Bembo ufed to call the Epiftles of St. Paul by the contemptuous name of ...
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... thought this Critic the likelieft to reverence , the redoubtable PRISCIAN , he impiously boafted that he had arms even againft Chrift himfelf . But Codrus Urcaeus went further , and a & ually ufed thofe arms which the other only ...
... thought this Critic the likelieft to reverence , the redoubtable PRISCIAN , he impiously boafted that he had arms even againft Chrift himfelf . But Codrus Urcaeus went further , and a & ually ufed thofe arms which the other only ...
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